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Getty Voices: Aztec Idols, Explorers, and Egyptomania

Peter Bonfitto | January 13, 2014

How did a 19th century scholar misidentify an Aztec sculpture as Egyptian?

Giorgio Vasari’s Monumental Painting “Last Supper” Reemerges After Nearly 50 Years

Melissa Abraham | December 23, 2013

For the first time in 47 years, the five wooden panels that make up Giorgio Vasari’s “Last Supper” are joined together again to make the artwork whole.

Form versus Function: Rare Journals Acquired by the Getty Research Institute

Kim Sadler | December 19, 2013

New acquisitions provide researchers crucial context for two key international art movements—Jugendstil and Concrete Art.

Architecture as Art in Culver City

Maureen McGlynn | December 16, 2013

“Public art can contribute to defining a city’s identity and to unifying its vision,” and buildings contribute to this identity too!

Rings of Fire: Research at Synchrotron Facilities

Catherine Schmidt Patterson | December 12, 2013

Conservation science never sleeps! And sometimes conservation scientists don’t either. What is it like to run experiments during the graveyard shift?

Bigger Than Ourselves: Episcopal Priest Dr. Gwynne Guibord on Finding the Sacred through Art

Annelisa Stephan | December 11, 2013

“All space, all beings, and all creation is sacred—but we don’t walk through life seeing it that way. Art offers a transition, helping us leave behind the secular world and move into a sacred place.”